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Re: How to mask password when using ALTER USER syntax in psql. - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: How to mask password when using ALTER USER syntax in psql.
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Msg-id 20090910222848.GF31165@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to How to mask password when using ALTER USER syntax in psql.  (Kenneth Banyas <kenneth.banyas-1@nasa.gov>)
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Kenneth Banyas wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am using versions 7.4 and 8.3.7.
> I have not discovered a way to obfuscate the password when changing it
> in psql with ALTER USER syntax.
> The password displays in clear text at the command line AND in the log file.
> Why is this?

Perhaps you could try \password in psql.

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